Bloomer-skirt.



IVI. PHILIP. BLOOIWEI? SKIRT.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I9I ISI?- LSI'JTQGQ@ Pate-med Dec. l1, 191?,

-resident ot the city or BLOOMER-SKRT.

Speceaton of Letters Patent.

patenten nee.. ii, ier".

i application mea'aprii is, i917. seriaino. 163,105.

To alt whom t may concern:

Be' it known that Monizrs Fi-rinrr, a subject oi' the Emperor ofAustria, and a New York, borough ot liianhattan7 in the county and Stateof New York, have invented a new and lmprovcd Blf)oiiieikii't, of whichthe iollowing is a itull, clear7 and exact description.

'l` his invention relates and particularly to a childs garment and hasfor an object the provision of an iur proved construction whereby thegarment may be arranged for use as a skirt or arranged itor use asbloomers.

Another object in view is to provide a combined skirt and bloomergarment so that the same fastening means inay be used for holding thegarment 1n proper position a skirt or in proper position as a bloomer.

still further object of the invention is to provide a skirt which isJformed with means for dividing the skirt into sections, and theprovision of means for puclrering each section or leg to produceabloomer eiect.

ln the accompanying drawing Figure l is a perspective view o a embodyingthe invention.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the skirt shown in Fig. l arranged on afigure.

Fig. 3 is a :ieispective view of a garment shown on a hgure and arrangedas a. pair of trousers.

Fig. i is a view similar to Fig. 3 but showing the lower end of the legspuckered or converted into a bloomer structure.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view or the garment sliownwin Fig. 3 looking atthe same from the bottom.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail fragmentary sectional view through Fig. 2on line (i4-6.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, l indicates the skirtas an entirety, the saine .being provided, if desired, with a waist band2 and with plaits 3 and 4': at the rear. Also, plaits 5 and 6 areprovided at the front, said plaits being preferably of the variety knownas boX- plaits so as to provide a fullness which will hide the buttonsand other` connecting means when the device is in use as a skirt andWhich will no'J produce a load appearing structure when the device isused as bloomers.

The skirt l is provided with an opening 7 at the iront and an ope-ning 8at the hack7 skirt to wearing apparel fitting said openings extendingfor any desired distance, preferably slightly less than half the lengthof the skirt. By reason of these two openings sections or legs 9 and l0will Ice formed which, when arranged as shown in Fig. e, will produce abloomer eilect and when connected as shown in Fig. l will pijoduce a.skirt. At the point of connection at both the front and rear there isprovided a strip lliormed with a number of buttonL holes 1Q- torreceiving the respective buttons i3 secured to the strip le. `The stripl1 is connected to the leg section 9 while strip lll is connected to thesection l0, as shown more particularly in Fig. 6.

lt will be observed that the buttonhole strip 1l is completely out ofsight and the strip la is almost completely hidden, though the sameoverlaps section l1. This construction is necessary not only inconnecting the skrt together as shown in Fig. il but when connecting thesame as shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, in which instance the strip lli ofleg l() would be connected to the strip 11 of the saine leg and therebyproduce a round leg structure as shown in Fig. 5. The strip 14 of theleg section 9 will also be connected to the strip l1 of the same legsection. Butm tons and buttonholes have been provided as shown in thedrawing, but it will .be evident that hooks and eyes or other,connecting means may be used without departing from the spirit of 'theinvention.

in order to pucker the legs and to 'produce a proper bloomer effect,draw strings 'l5 and 16 are provided. draw string 15 being connected at17 and 18 to section 9 while draw string 16 is connected at 19 and 2O tosection l0, said draw strings in the usual hem 2l provided in the skirt.Upon drawing the center or the exposed part of the draw strings 15 and16 the sections 9 and 10 will be puckered at the lower end and saidpucker may be maintained by 'forming a knot in each of the draw stringsand adjusting the parts as shown in Fig. 4;. By unbuttoning the partsfrom the position shown in Fig. l and again buttoning them as shown inFig. l the arment will be changed back into a s irt formation as shownin Fig. 1. A minimum number of fastening means have been provided forholding the parts of the skirtto gether when arranged as a skirt and'the saine ifastenin g means when holding the lower ends of the www@parts together when the garment is arranged as bloomers.

What claim is:

A bloomer skim; comprising a skirt bml) provided at the from; and backwith openings, means for noxmally connecting the Walls of said openingstogether @ge to edge,

:and means im connecting im@ edg@ of th@ garment at 15h@ openngss@ as topoduce 2L pair of eg structyu'es, said body being formed with a box patG11-each Side @f Said openings to cvm Said openings; when be parte meconnected bogethar @sfiga no edge. MURRS PHL'P.

